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re: NYT Editorial: how to deal with ISIS

Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:57 pm to
Posted by Stingray
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:57 pm to
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Among them is Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority, the grand mufti, who called ISIS and Al Qaeda the “enemy No. 1 of Islam.”


This part is interesting to me as my current supposed understanding is that the Saudi royals are against the religious uprising as it threatens their position, but the Sunni extremists in Saudi are pro-ISIS.
Posted by Northwestern tiger
Long Island NY
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 9:02 pm to
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This part is interesting to me as my current supposed understanding is that the Saudi royals are against the religious uprising as it threatens their position, but the Sunni extremists in Saudi are pro-ISIS.


every sunni extremists is pro ISIS, the key question is how many of them are! i think the majority of Muslims are not Pro ISIS. But you never know, not without elections, which is a dangerous thing to have in the Me (Libya and Syria but not Tunisia).
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